What need you, being come to sense,But fumble in a greasy tillAnd add the halfpence to the penceAnd prayer to shivering prayer, untilYou have dried the marrow from the bone?

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS,Irish poet and Nobel laureate

It’s a cold Tuesday morning, and already the line is forming outside the David Ellis Pawn Shop in the upscale neighborhood of Cherry Creek, Denver, bordering the foothills of the Colorado Rockies. It will be another 10 minutes before the doors open. A woman in a fur coat sits in her parked car with its license tags about to expire. She runs the engine to keep warm while others shuffle around in silence, dodging any direct eye contact.

Denver, the Mile High city, is one of the country’s top 10 metropolitan areas where people are saddled with the highest levels of personal debt. This is a result of high housing prices, a steep cost of living, and a culture of spending—a hangover from better days.1 The David Ellis Pawn Shop has been in business in the same location for over 25 years and during this time has seesawed through multiple financial highs and lows. Trade, however, has never been so brisk or with such a dramatically broadened demographic as it is now.

he first two chapters of Part 2 discuss vitamins and minerals. Vitamins are organic, carbon-based, compounds required, in small amounts, for the biochemical reactions of life to occur. By definition, vitamins cannot be made in the body from other compounds, but must be obtained from outside sources, usually, food. For this reason, they were deemed vital amines by the chemist, Casmir Funk, in 1912. Since the discovery of B1, the first vitamin, some thirteen additional vitamins have been isolated, chemically analyzed, and studied.

Vitamins are broadly categorized into two main groups, depending on their solubility in water or lipids. There are the water-soluble vitamins, comprised of vitamin C and the B-vitamin group, and the fat-soluble vitaminsA, D, E, and K. Foods vary widely in their specific contributions of vitamins. Some foods are dense for one or more vitamins and weak in the others (no single food offers high levels of the entire vitamin spectrum). In this chapter, I will focus on the most nutrient-dense sources for each vitamin.

Boilerplate is readily reusable code—a
template, if you like—that you can use as a basis for your projects.
Extracted from a website, the boilerplate code is what you use over and over
again without changes to start off a project or a file.

Often, you’ll know you’re using boilerplate because it forms your
first task when you start a project (usually copying and pasting from a
“skeleton” into your project). A good boilerplate takes advantage of the
wealth of research done by the Web community, providing optimized,
best-practice baseline code. It enables you to hit the ground running,
reducing your development time as you start to customize.

While boilerplates can reduce development time, they often depend on
incorrect assumptions about your project’s needs. This can affect their
suitability for your use. For example, they may support browsers and
devices irrelevant to your target audience at the cost of your site’s
performance. This emphasizes the need to understand the nuts and bolts of
boilerplates and make informed decisions about when to use them.